If you’re reading this, it’s most likely because you’re a woman in business. That also means at some point you’ve caught yourself wondering thoughts like: Why is this so hard? Is there something I don’t know? How do other business owners make it look easy? Surely there’s more to entrepreneurship than overwhelm and a mediocre […]

Whenever anyone hears that I own 4 businesses and have 3 children, they instantly make a whole lot of assumptions about me. You must work long hours. You must miss out on a lot of time with your children. You must be crazy. Well, I am crazy about business and about helping people get paid […]

There’s a lot of mistakes we’ve all made in business at some point. Perhaps you’ve hired the wrong person, found your books to be in a mess come tax time, or desperately thrown money at paid advertising without a clear sales funnel to back it up. And then there’s another “bucket” of mistakes entirely—ones that […]

Do you panic or get a little freaked out when you hear someone mention the word “sales,” or even worse, the phrase “sales funnel”? Most people’s thought process goes a little something like this: Sales → I hate selling. Funnel → That sounds like a lot of work. But a sales funnel is actually a […]

I used to think “morning routines” were for celebrities or, at the very least, people without children.  But friends, I’m now a person with a morning routine (and 3 children!) and this tiny piece of self care has been a game changer in supporting my physical and mental health and setting me up for success […]

When it comes to using social media for your business, have you ever caught yourself thinking “I know I should be posting, but I just don’t know what to say?!” Figuring out what to say is undoubtedly the biggest roadblock in the whole marketing process, so I want to clear that block for you today […]

You might have heard me talk about some of my favourite time management techniques in the past—namely, the Pomodoro Technique and Deep Work sessions. While these are excellent strategies for getting big chunks of work done, there are other tricks I turn to when I want to “win back” a few extra minutes in my […]

There’s an overwhelming sentiment filling my inbox at the moment: complete emotional and mental fatigue. “When is this going to end???” we’re all asking. As I listen to women share their frustrations—trying to juggle nurturing family, running businesses, and taking care of their own health—I keep repeating the same line: “That’s because BALANCE IS BS.” […]

At my dance studio, Port Macquarie Performing Arts, we send out birthday cards to all of our students. They’re handwritten and signed “From all of your teachers at PMPA”. (Yes, we actually put them in the mail! Not an e-card!)  It’s something we’ve been doing for years but I was reminded the other day of […]

Last week I talked to you about my goal setting motto of “You can’t make a plan for where you want to be until you’ve managed to reflect on where you are now.” I realised that for a lot of people that brought up negative emotions of everything they didn’t achieve in 2021. While we’re still […]